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Announcements
Health Research in the Americas Conference: HIV Prevention
May 7-8, 2009, 8 a.m., Michael S. Gordon Center for Research in Medical Education,
Broad-Bussel Auditorium, Clinical Research Building
** Please Note: General Registration is now FREE! **
The Health Research in the Americas V Conference, sponsored by the University of Miami Fogarty International Training Program in AIDS and TB and UNAIDS, will focus on “HIV Prevention Across the Lifespan”. Presentations will cover prevention methodology among pediatric, adolescent, adult, and aging populations. The conference will provide current HIV prevention information for clinicians, students, researchers and non-clinical health workers in order to address the increasing prevalence rates of HIV, and the need for clinicians and researchers to address prevention efforts among vulnerable and difficult to reach populations.Presentations will take place on May 7th from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. at the Gordon Center for Research in Medical Education's Broad-Bussel Auditorium on the first floor of the Clinical Research Building. The Keynote address “Know Your Epidemic! Know Your Response” will be given by Dr. Ruben F.del Prado, Fogarty Alumnus and UNAIDS Country Coordinator for Guyana and Suriname. Speakers on the first day of the conference will focus on Pediatric, Adolescent, and Family HIV Prevention. The conference will feature presentations and roundtable panels discussions with experts from UM and physicians and researchers from Latin America and the Caribbean.
The conference will continue on May 8th from 8:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. also in the Broad-Bussel Auditorium at the Gordon Center. We are honored to have the presence of Sir George Alleyne, Special Envoy for HIV in the Caribbean as the keynote speaker. The conference will continue with presentations and roundtable panels on HIV Prevention among adults and the elderly.
General registration is free. Seating is limited to 100 people. For more information contact Victoria Elf at velf@med.miami.edu or 305-243-3210.
Health Research in the Americas V: HIV Prevention
*** FREE GENERAL REGISTRATION! ***
Fogarty scholar Claudia Bisol’s presentation at the 2008 AIDS Conference in Mexico City.
Presentation (in Spanish) from the TB Workshop in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic on November 13, 2008: Panel sobre Universidades y su Vinculacion con la Prevencion y Tratamiento de la TB
Presentations by Dr. Jayaweera:
HIV Grand Rounds Presentation on September 2, 2008: IAS Meeting Update: New and Emerging Therapies in Existing and Novel Classes
Co-Infection Presentation on August 13, 2008: Hepatitis C and HIV Co-Infection
Fogarty scholar Claudia Bisol’s presentation at the 2008 AIDS Conference in Mexico City.
Thanks to everyone who made the Health Research in the Americas IV conference a great success!
The presentations given on Friday May 16, 2008 may be downloaded from the Southeastern National Tuberculosis Center website.
Presentations: Cali, Colombia, May 2008
Consumo de Alcohol y riesgos para VIH
Lesiones orales y estado inmunológico de pacientes VIH
Consumo de alcohol en pacientes VIHSIDA Bajo atención integral
Características de personalidad y riesgo de infección por vih
Consumo de bebidas alcohólicas como potencializador del riesgo
Consumo de alcohol en adultos jóvenes y percepción de riesgo
Alcoholismo y Consumo de Sustancias Psicoactivas y su asociación con VIH
Impacto_del_consumo_de_OH_sobre_progresion_del_VIH
Asociación de abuso de alcohol y comp. de riesgo
Factores protectores y de riesgo en adolesc. hijos de padre alcohólicos
Programa de intervención para alcoholismo en pacientes con VIH
Infección por el virus de inmunodeficiencia humana VIH-SIDA
Barreras Técnicas, Financieras y Políticas
Global Health Fact Data Tool. Web visitors to GlobalHealthFacts.org can now create new customized data sheets in three easy steps, comparing up to five countries against any or all of the approximately 100 global health, demographic and economic indicators available on the site. Custom data sheets can be created to provide, for example, a health profile for a particular country, to compare countries across indicators or to offer a snapshot of an emerging global health issue. Each data sheet can be viewed online, converted into a PDF file, printed, emailed or saved.
Download the Health Research in the Americas IV HIV/TB Conference Agenda.
Please submit your Health Research in the Americas IV HIV/TB Registration Form by April 30, 2008.
Online Pharmacoeconomics Course.
The following online course is available in Spanish on the University of Miami website:
Economia y Farmacoeconomia Para Personal De Salud. To access the course, click on the following link: http://angel7.med.miami.edu/frames.aspx. The username and password are the first letter of your first name and your entire last name. So, for "John Smith" the username and password would be "jsmith." You may change the password after you log in. Go to preferences, which is the wrench icon. To start viewing the course, once you log in, click on the hyperlink of the aforementioned course, then click on the “Lessons” tab. We hope that additional web courses will be added very soon. If you have any questions regarding this online course, please contact Maurice Duque.
